Articles in English
ISDS Blog | 4-Jan-2017
Windstream is an American company, which invested in one of the world’s largest offshore wind power parks, to be located in Lake Ontario.
El Universal | 2-Jan-2017
The Venezuelan Solicitor General’s Office (PGR) said that a request has been analyzed to overturn the arbitrary award issued by the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (Icsid)
IA Reporter | 2-Jan-2017
Novartis lodged a formal notice of dispute under the Switzerland-Colombia BIT.
keywords:
Colombia ,
intellectual property ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
medicines ,
Switzerland
Latin American Herald Tribune | 2-Jan-2017
The annulment committee formed by the World Bank’s ICSID has ruled that Venezuela must pay oil services company Tidewater $37 million for the expropriation of its ships and rigs in 2009.
Kluwer Arbitration Blog | 30-Dec-2016
This dispute and final judgment provide some valuable lessons for the arbitral tribunal in the ECT Vattenfall dispute.
Kluwer Arbitration Blog | 29-Dec-2016
While India has been reshaping its arbitration laws and investment climate, the jury is still out on whether these measures will actually help create a more secure legal environment for investors.
keywords:
Brazil ,
BRICS ,
India ,
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
reformed ISDS
FFII | 23-Dec-2016
Due to inherent systemic issues with specialised and supranational courts, a multilateral investment court would create a high risk on expansive interpretations of investors’ rights.
AFL-CIO | 21-Dec-2016
It is important that everyday working people’s perspectives lead the debate, starting with how to rewrite NAFTA.
keywords:
alternatives ,
human rights ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
labour | workers’ rights ,
NAFTA | USMCA ,
US
Investment Claims | 21-Dec-2016
The recent signature of the Argentina-Qatar Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) and the imminent signature of an Argentina-Japan BIT represent a shift in Argentina’s BIT policy.
Sierra Club | 19-Dec-2016
What connects two proposed gold mines, one in the high-altitude wetlands of Colombia and one in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania?
